We didn't need Snowden; we had bad TV!
File this under "Holy crap, what did I watch last night?"
Mrs. Servant and I have been binge-watching (on Netflix) the ABC show "Scandal," which is an incredibly cheesy spy/detective/thriller series set in DC and centered around the city's most powerful "fixer," who also happens to be the black sometimes-mistress of the white Republican president -- and that's maybe the least-improbable conceit on the show. It plays like "Mission: Impossible" redone by the people who made "Dynasty," but it's goofily entertaining.
Anyway, last night we watched Season 2, Episode 3: Hunting Season. In this episode, the fixer and her team are approached by a low-level NSA worker who has gotten his hands on an NSA program called "Thorngate" -- a program that the NSA is using to engage in widespread domestic surveillance and which has the ability, among other things, to allow the NSA to turn on cameras in people's computers and cell phones without them knowing. A program the White House knows about and is determined to defend.
Sound familiar? Of course it does. But here's the thing:
"Hunting Season" aired on October 18, 2012 -- 8 months before the first Snowden revelation!
"Scandal" -- season 2, episode 3, streaming on Netflix right now. If you check it out, but make sure you have some tinfoil in the house.
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